Eli Young Band’s “Crazy Girl” Goes GOLD

Posted by TawnyTucker on July 29th, 2011

Eli Young Band’s “Crazy Girl” has been certified GOLD by the RIAA this week for sales of over 500,000 downloads. By the time reports came in this morning, the band had sold nearly 600,000 downloads. The lead single from their forthcoming album, Life At Best, was an obvious hit with fans right from the start.

The single made its debut at #1 on the iTunes Country Singles Chart with over 47,000 downloads the first week and has sold an average of 30,000 downloads a week, every week, for months on end. The song has continuously outsold a large majority of the singles above it on the radio chart.

In the last two weeks the band has sold over 40,000 downloads a week, with numbers increasing every week. With its debut as the most added single at Billboard, “Crazy Girl” is the fastest rising single of the bands career and is currently Top 20 and climbing.

Drummer Chris Thompson said, “gold rocks!! You grow up hearing about artists going gold and dream of what it would be like. Gold has always been such a measure of success.” Lead singer Mike Eli added “it’s pretty cool that the single went gold before the record even came out.” Thompson continued, “this is a huge milestone for us.”

“This is an amazing accomplishment that sends one message loud and clear – Country music fans love the Eli Young Band and ‘Crazy Girl!’ Everyone at Republic Nashville could not be happier or more excited and we all look forward to the release of the debut album on August 16. Fans are going to love this album,” said Jimmy Harnen, Republic Nashville President.